Motion Ventures backs early stage companies accelerating digital and energy transitions across global supply chains, with maritime at the core. Launched in Singapore in 2021 by the venture studio Rainmaking, the firm raised a first fund with an initial close of S$30 million anchored by SEEDS Capital, the investment arm of Enterprise Singapore, alongside strategic maritime investors such as Wilhelmsen and the port logistics group HHLA. Its defining asset is a corporate limited partner consortium the firm describes as the largest group of maritime corporates backing any fund, spanning shipowners, ports, classification societies and logistics groups including Lloyd's Register and Stolt-Nielsen. That network gives portfolio companies pilot customers and distribution inside a famously hard to enter industry. Investment themes include decarbonisation, supply chain resilience, safety, and AI and automation applied to shipping operations. In March 2025 Motion launched Fund II at US$100 million, described as the largest dedicated maritime tech fund raised to date, writing cheques of US$250,000 to US$10 million into roughly 25 companies, and extending its scope from software into asset intensive hardware solutions for the industry's energy transition.
Portfolio company DeepSea Technologies, an AI vessel efficiency platform in Motion's Fund I portfolio, was acquired by Japan's Nabtesco Group in 2023.